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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Sept. 1 



that grand temperance woman, Mrs. Lenora 

 Lake, the one who has done such mighty 

 work among her own people, the Roman 

 Catholics, came to the city, and not only 

 carried her own people but almost the whole 

 town. A relative of mine told me the city 

 would have gone wet without question had 

 it not been for the vigorous efforts of this 

 one temperance woman. He said he did not 

 believe there was a temperance speaker in 

 our land, among the men-folks, who could 

 have carried the town as she did. The town 

 went dry with a very fair majority. 



There is another fallacy which the recent 

 temperance crusade in Xenia has refuted. 

 Many business men are afraid to take an 

 active and prominent part in getting the sa- 

 loons out because the wets would not pat- 

 ronize them. Now, the firm of Hutchinson 

 & Gibney, dealers in drygoods, etc., have 

 from first to last taken a very prominent 

 part in ousting the saloons. They have just 

 sent to the American Issue the follov.'ing 

 letter: 



M?: P. A. Baker.— We are obliged to you for your wor- 



thy labors on the wet and dry question. Our success 

 will help others. We are known as a temperance house, 

 or " dry," and our sales last year were $10,000 more than 

 any of the previous years of our history. 

 Xenia, O., Aug. 2, 1904. Hutchinson & Gibney. 



Now just one other item. I told you I 

 came into the town during fair time. The 

 day after the fair, one of the Xenia papers 

 stated in an editorial that, for the first time 

 in years, there had not been a single arrest 

 made on the fairground for drunkenness, 

 pocket-picking, nor any disorderly conduct; 

 and yet the attendance at the recent fair 

 was one of the largest on record. Cam- 

 bridge, Ohio, with a population just about 

 equal to that of Xenia, has also gone dry for 

 the second time. A prominent man among 

 the wets remarked recently, with a discour- 

 aged air, that if "things " kept on at the 

 present rate there would not be a saloon left 

 in Ohio at the end of twenty years. I feel 

 like thanking him for his encouraging words 

 — especially as they come from " across the 

 line." But, dear Christian workers, can't 

 we cut the time down to a half or a quarter 

 of the twenty, God helping us? 



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